Catholic Answers LIVE
Catholic Answers Live, hosted by Cy Kellett, is a daily, two-hour radio program dedicated to Catholic apologetics and evangelization. According to listener surveys, it is a runaway favorite on Catholic stations across America.
As a call-in program, Catholic Answers Live connects listeners to prominent leaders in the Church today—including scholars, nuns, priests, bishops, and cardinals—and touches on every aspect of our lives as Christians. You'll hear discussions on just about everything relating to the Church: doctrinal controversies, family concerns, social issues, evangelization, ethics…you name it!
Catholic Answers Live airs every Monday through Friday from 6-8 PM Eastern (3-4 PM Pacific) on over 360 AM and FM stations in the United States, Sirius Satellite Radio channel 130, and through the Internet at catholic.com. If you can't listen live, you can subscribe to our podcast or download individual shows from our MP3 archive.
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Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
03:35 – Is there a restricted number of religious orders that can be formed? What do the initials mean after the names of religious?
13:03 – In the book of Acts Paul confronts Peter regarding Peter’s refusal to eat with gentile believers. If the Pope makes a similar error today, who confronts him and how is it done?
31:42 – What kind of initiatives do we need a bishop’s permission for?
41:19 – Mark 9:29 says these kind are driven out by prayer and fasting. I have heard that the “and fasting” part is a scribal entry. How can we know that Jesus actually said this?
47:19 – What prayer do you say, or any prayer when you see crosses on the side of the highway
48:53 – Are there spiritual dangers of apologetics? If so, what are they?
50:44 – Hi this is Jeff from Huntingdon, TN. We know that God does not judge a person that is mentally unstable the same as others. What about people that have personalities, environmental situations and inclinations that could be considered almost impossible to overcome, even with a lifetime of praying for those traits to end? Will they be judged the same at the end of their life?
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08:02 – How come Peter never wrote any gospels? Were the 4 who did write the gospels considered superior over the others?
13:42 – Did the power that Pharoah have in the story of the Exodus come from demons?
17:22 – I have recently had long-time, life-long, cradle Catholics tell me that there is not much of a difference between being a Catholic and being Lutheran. One of them, in particular, is actively exploring his options to leave the Catholic Church to join the Lutheran Church. What are the most compelling things that you would share with Catholics like this to encourage them to stay in the Catholic Church?
24:38 – What is the Catholic Church’s belief about whether the Blessed Mother physically “delivered” Jesus as in “labor and delivery?” Is it the Church’s belief that since she is ever-virgin that she did not go through birth in the same way as all women? How does this relate to Revelations Chapter 12 verse 2?
31:30 – How does the idea of God being “pure act” square with the fact that God chose to do certain things and not other things?
37:27 – When I go to Confession and I say “”I am sorry for these and all the sins of my past life””, and I am absolved by the priest, why would I need to go to Purgatory. Aren’t all my sins forgiven?
44:03 – The Apostles’ Creed has a line saying that Jesus “descended into hell.” Please explain this, since that is the last place he should be!
49:37 – Did the Old Testament period realize God was a trinity?
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13:24 – How does the Church see its role in the current situation in Israel?
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Questions Covered:
15:33 – Is Kekulé’s dream that led to the discovery of the benzene molecule just scientific apocrypha?
22:48 – Do you see intelligent design as an actual theory to supplement Darwinian evolution?
32:28 – What do you think of the comments of Max Plank saying that everything postulates consciousness?
32:28 – What do you think of the comments of Max Plank saying that everything postulates consciousness?
42:27- What knowledge do you have on the timing of conception?
46:48 – Particle collider in Switzerland. What are your thoughts on the research that is taking place there?
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Questions Covered:
02:07 – Can you clarify why Christians from other denominations can’t receive communion with each other?
08:30 – Are all angels boys or girls like humans?
13:31 – If Mark was Peter’s interpreter, why did Peter need an interpreter?
19:58 – Is it possible for a husband to lust after his wife and it becomes a sin?
28:46 – Could you expound on Psalm 34:18 and Psalm 23 in light of personal sufferings?
32:25 – What am I allowed to do in prayer with non-Catholics?
36:22 – You have said that magisterial teaching can fall into disuse. Can you back up your claim and explain?
43:34 – I have seven children and my wife almost died during the last pregnancy. NFP is a way of life now. Is this wrong and would this require us to abstain from intimacy?
49:53 – I’m a Byzantine Catholic. Why isn’t there much diversity in the western rite compared to the eastern rites?
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